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8
SPOT AND THE
OLD GRAY COAT
"T*e gray suit is the one I like best.
father, and it is most like Jiiuinie
Tucker's."
Jack and his father were standing
on the sidewalk and looking in ;it tin
window of one of tlu> great city cloth
ing stoivs.
"It has an extra pocket, and it won't
show dust, and you know it is for
school, father."
"All right," said his father. "Buy-
Ing this suit reminds me of oik- 1 bad
when I was just about your age. Did
I ever tell you about that pepper and
salt suit that your grandmother made
for me? You ask mc abort it some
time and I will tell you."
That night after supper seemed to
Ja<k exactly the right time to bear the
story of the pepper and Bait suit of
"MOTHKR BAT IUGHT DOWN ON THE
roooB."
long ago, and when he was safely
perched 00 the arm of his father's
chair the story began.
"When I was a small boy of your
age," said his father, "even the large
city stores had very little clothing
ready made tor children, and in the
little country village whore I was born
and lived there was nothing to be had.
and mothers, with all the other work
thut had to be done, were obliged to
cut and make the boys' clothes.
"I remember it was in the autumn;
your grandfather had gone to the civil
war. Ho went early in the spring, one
of the first to enlist in our town. Your
grandmother said one day, "I must rind
something to make little John a suit
of clothes.'
"I suppose. Jack, you think that it
would be easy to go to the store and
get cloth enough for a boy's suit. Hut
already prices were so high that even
the rich had to count the cost, and ev
ery scrap was used to the best ad
vantage. After awhile your grand
mother remembered an old coat that
your grandfather had never worn
much. She took it carefully to pieces.
ripping all the seams, then washed it
all very thoroughly and pressed it
■Booth with a hot flatiron, and not
till all this had been done could she
cut out the jacket and trousers.
"One night after supper your grand
mother came Into the old kitchen with
the suit In her arms and called me to
come in and be fitted. I had been out
in the yard playing with father's oltl
dog, a water spaniel named Spot.
"Mother had put the clothes on me
and was down on her knees beside
me, working In the fading light, when
in trotted Spot. lie lay down on the
Boor, watching us. All at once be
raised his bow in the air, with his
nostrils twitching, and then he gave a
Joyous bark and sprang at me, knock
lag me down on the floor, and then
began mlfflng at the clothes and to
lick my face and hands; then he would
run to the door and look out and run
back again, barking all the time.
Mother was so startled that it was
several minutes before she understood
that it was father's coat that Spot had
recognised, and he evidently thought
that his master must be home again.
"Mother sat right down on the floor
and took me and Spot, too, in her
arms and hogged and kissed us both.
laughing and crying by turns. There
was no more done to the suit that
night, but it was soon finished, and 1
am sure I never had a suit that 1
liked so well or felt so proud to wear.
It was my Sunday best for a long
time and wore so well that it was not
all gone when father came home.
"Old Spot lived to see his master
and to go on many a trip with him
through the woods."-Youth's Com
panion.
A Rejected Valentine.
Georgia. dressed up spick and iii,e.
Presented himself as a valentine
To little Polly, who tossed lior head.
Turned up bar nose and portly said:
"My goodness me! Why, don't you know
You're not a card with a ribbon bow
And cupids and roses painted line?
You're Just a boy, not a valentine!"
Then Georgie blushed and meekly said,
"To you by Cupid I was led.
And my love for you. so very true,
Is tied about by ribbon blue."
But Polly laughed in a teasing way
And said: "I'll bid you a good day.
Some other girl may not decline
To take you as her valentine."
Charade.
My first is formal, my second Is a
flower ami my whole is a blossom be
loved by the poets. Answer.—Primrose.
COLFAX GAZETTE, COLFAX, WASHINGTON, MARCH 31, 1911.
If improperly cooked
beef kidneys are a
coarse dish, but when
carefully prepared they
make an excellent stew.
Remove all superfluous
fat, trim them and cut
them into chunks. Let
them soak in cold salt
ed water for about an
hour. Rinse them very thoroughly and
then set them over the fire in fresh
cold water. When they come almost to
the boiling point and begin to show
scum on the surface pour off the water
and add fresh co.d water. A bettor
way, if one has time, is to remove the
kidneys, put them in a new pot or lay
them aside a moment until the pot tb; Jy
were cooked in has been thoroughly
washed out. Then put them back. In
order to get the strong flavor out of
this meat it is necessary to remove as
much scum and blood from it as pos
sible. Let thorn reheat in water a sec
ond time. Then pour off this second
water and treat as before. It may be
necessary to do it a third and a fourth
time also. When the stage is reached
in which the water is quite clear and
free from scum cut up one or two
onions—a good sized one for every kid
ney—one or two small carrots and one
or two potatoes. Put them into the
water around the meat and cook slow
ly for about two hours or until a
gravy is formed. Some cooks add a
little lemon juice or part of the yellow
peel of a lemon to the stew. The car
rots and onions may be left out and
the kidneys stewed by themselves, the
gravy being flavored only with a tiny
glass of wine and lemon juice.
Potato Cake.
Two cupfuls of sugar, two cupfuls
of flour, one cupful of butter, one
large cupful of English walnuts, one
cupful of potatoes, mashed and sea
soned, ready to serve; one and one
half cupfuls of chocolate, grated; one
half cupful of milk, five eggs, using
all the yolks and whites of three,
keeping two whites for boiled frost
ing; two teaspoonfuls of baking now
der, one each of cloves, cinnamon, all
spice and nutmeg, one each of lemon
and vanilla. Rake either in loaf or
layers. Cream butter and sugar. Add
milk, then yolks of eggs, beaten high;
then potatoes, soft spices, chocolate
and baking powder in flour, and add
to eggs and butter. Then add beaten
whites and lastly the nuts. Will keep
fresh for a week or ten days.
Split Pea Soup.
For split pea sotfp. so good } n this
cold weather, soak a quart of split peas
overnight In the morning put thorn
on the stove in plenty of fresh cold
water, about four times as much water
as peas. Add a large piece of salt
pork, half a Rood sized carrot, a good
sized leek, two potatoes of medium
size, one root of parsley, one teaspoon
ful of thyme, one large turnip, a
bunch of celery tips, a large slice of
bread and salt and pepper to taste.
Let the soup boil all day, adding fresh
water as it boils down. Strain before
serving.
A Fine Sauce.
Apples and cranberries are very
good cooked together, about half and
half. Let & quart of the mixture cook
with about a cupful of water or just
enough to prevent burning. At the
end of twenty minutes add two cup
fuls of granulated sugar and let the
mixture cook for about ten minutes
more. Turn into molds and serve
when cold. The apples seem to mel
low the berries, and the sauce will be
preferred to one entirely of berries by
those who do not like the sharpness
of the latter when cooked alone.
Tea Wafers.
For the Virginia wafers that are
served with afternoon tea and other
light repasts work a couple of table
spoonfuls of butter into two cupfuls
of flour and mix in enough ice water
to make a stiff paste. Then put the
dough on to a floured board and roll
into a very thin sheet—it should be little
thicker than paper—arid cut In rounds
with a saucer. Bake in a quick oven
on a floured pan. The wafers should
have an uneven, bubbly surface and
be eaten cold. They are delicious with
a conserve or jam.
Sandwich Filler.
White raisin bread made into sand
wiches with minced nuts and cream
cheese is delicious. Cut the slices very
thin and spread one with cream cheese
and the other with the nuts. Both
should be tattered first. If they are
cut in the shape of card suits for after
noon refreshments at card clubs and
parties they are very sightly. The
card suit cutters are kept by the house
furnishers.
Soup Stock.
In mixing leftovers for soups never
combine fish and meat, beef and lamb,
thicken and beef. Sometimes n little
hacon or i»ork bones can.be added to
soup stock for richer flavoring.
One Day's Menu.
BREAKFAST.
Steamed Rice and Apples. Sugar and
Cream.
Poached Egga on Buttered Toast
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Sweet Potato and Nut Loaf.
Cream Cheese Sandwiches
Apple Pie.
Milk or Tea.
DINNER.
Cream of Turnip Soup
Roast Mutton. Brown Sauce.
Baked Macaroni. French Peaa.
Pepper Salad. Wafers.
Coffee. Raising.
1 here is an old h lemish proverb
which reads as iollows: No grass,
no cattle; no cable, no manure ;no
manure, no crops.
Dairy Doings.
An ounce of the fluid extract of black
haw in a pint of warm water will be
found very valuable for a cow threat
ening abortion. A half dose can be re
peated in two or three hours as often as
necessary.
To the man of little money and
many children the Shorthorn is a bo
nanza, supplying milk and butter and
a good salable calf at. weaning time.
The Jersey, Ayrshire and llolstein are
great milk and butter cows, but their
calves are not to bo considered when
seeking cattle for the feed lot.
Calves are often troubled by ring
worms. It is due to a vegetable para
site. The best treatment is sulphur
ointment, made of powdered sulphur,
lard, oil or grease. Wash the part af
fected with soapsuds and then apply
the sulphur ointment.
Cows require from one to eight
ounces of salt per day. The more
concentrates they receive the more
salt they require It should be where
they can have access to it every day.
According to an experiment made at
the Wisconsin station, about two
ounces per cow per day is the average
amount required.
The Kansas Agricultural college
grades cream as follows: First grade
cream, 30 or more per cent of butter
fat; second grade, 25 per cent and less
than '.',<); third grade, having less than
2o per cent butter fat. Creameries
like to got high testing cream, say 30
and above. They make more butter
from this, as the overrun is greater.
Alfalfa hay is a most excellent feed
for dairy cows. The animate always
relish clean, bright alfalfa hay, and its
milk producing value is high. The
dairyman that has plenty of alfalfa is
especially fortunate.
Never allow the cows to be excited
by hard driving, abuse, loud talking
or unnecessary disturbance. Do not"
expose them to cold or storms.
If you have six cows ami no sepa
rator sell one of the cows ami buy a
separator. You will save work ami
make money by the deal.
Kindness to cows is one of the es
sential elements hi profitable dairying
No matter how well cows are fed and
sheltered, they will not be good milk
ers if they are handled ro-jgh^v.
Do you know that of all the minor
ailments colds are by far the most dnn
gerous? It is not the cold itself that
you need to fear, but the serious diseases
that it often leads to. Most of these are
known as germ diseases. Pneumonia
and consumption are among them. Why
not take Chamberlin's Cough Remedy
and cure your cold while you can? For
sale by all dealers.
Shirkey & (Jlaser, graduate opticians
A Fierce Night Alarm
is the hoarse, startling cough of a child
suddenly attacked by croup. Often it
nrouspd Lewis Chamblin of Manchester,
O. (R. R. No. 2), for their four children
were greatly subject to croup. "Some
times in eevere attacks," he wrote, "we
were afraid they would die, but since we
Droved what a certain remedy Dr. King's
New Discovery is, we have no fear We
rely on it for croup aud for coughs,
colds or any throat or lung trouble."
So do thousands of others. So may
you. Asthma, Hay Fever, Li Grippe,
Whooping Cough, Hemorrhages Hy be
fore it. 50c and $1 00. Trial bottle
free. Sold by all druggists.
Fquirrela are out. Cell at Ripley's
Pharmacy for your poison as we keep
all kinds at correct prices.
For plumbing, material and supplipp,
call on J. B Brown. Phone Red I">2[
When you have rheumatism in your
foot or instep apply Chamberlain's Lini
ment and you will get quick relief. It
costs but a quarter. Why suffer? For
sale by all dealers.
Grandfather knows good whiskey and
since he was a boy HARPER has been
hie choico. It's good enough for me,
and for YOU too—in short it is the best
—buy HARPER from J. C. Monahan.
COAL
$7.50 PER TON
Delivered
ASK US ABOUT IT
STAKDARD LUMBER
COMPANY
Phone us your orders
Phone Main 21
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V m^o^^S^ PRAIRIE DOGSAW2GOPHERS
h '*v3f|i iSi ARE ALL DESTROYED BY
MSpM WOODLARK SQUIRREL POISON
7- THE STANDARD OF THE WORLD
REQUIRES NO MIXINGORPREPARATiON
ALWAYS READY FOR USE
ALWAYS RELIABLE
NO OTHER IS SO GOOD NOR MADE WITH SUCH GREAT CARE
SUCCESSFULLY USED BY 50,000 G«*IN GROWERS IN 1910. WHEN YOU BUY. DEMAND THE BEST.
GET THE .-WOODLAHK BRAND." MONEY BACK IF NOT AS CLAIMED.
HOYT CHEMICAL CO., PORTLAND. OREGON
Cure Your Kidneys
Do Not Endanger Life
"When a Coif ax Citizen
Shows You the Cure.
Why will people continue to suffer the
agonies of kidney complaint, backache, uri
nary disorders, lameness, headache*, languor,
why allow themselves to become chronic in
valids, when a certain cure id offered them?
Doan's Ki;ney Pills is the remedy to ate,
becau*e it give? to the kidneys the help they
need to perform their work.
If jmu have any, even o c, of the symptoms
of kidney diseases, cure yourself now, before
diabetes, dropsy or I>rit;ht's disease eets in.
Head this Culfax testimony:
L. K. Largent, 104 [aland street, Colter,
Waf-h , says: "While living in Pullman I
vm advised to try Doan'u Kidney Pills and I
did ho. Thin remedy relieved n.e of backache
and regulated the passages of the kidney
secretions which had caused me much annoy
ance. Another member of iry family took
DoanV Kidney Pill* and found them very
benefici il.'"
For sal by all dealers. Price £0 cents.
Poater-Milburn Co, Bi ffalo, New York, sole
agents for the United States,
Keiiieuiber the name— Doan'a and take no
other.
For any special bargain in
FARM LAND
I have ji buyer. Money to loan in large
or pnidll nraountH.
iUf l.Uti* 11. REID
102 Main Ai, 'Cit\l*x, W.ish.
Piles! Files! Piles!
Williams' Indian Pile Ointment will cure
Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles. It ab
sorbs tbe tumors, allays itching at once,
arts as a poultice, gives instant relief.
Williams' Indian Pile Ointment is pre
pared for Piles and Itching of the private
parts. Druggists, mail 50c and $1 00. i
WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Props., Ckveiand, Ohio
For patent V. T McOo*frp.v't* r*ruK otore j
ARRO POULTRY YARDS
Pare Crystal tVMtr Orpington?—Kel
ler-Straes ntr-H-H —xeel'ent layer* Kafze
for batehinjr. $2 50 [>er settini; <<f 13.
N. V. ROW^
CARFJ LD, - WASH NCTON
THE FAMOUS
CHASE & SABB9RN
COFFEE
in eeverui different blende is car- ■
ried by
W. H. Lacey
The L^ailiny Grocer
Tell us your wants —we'll
supply them.
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The leading Seed Catalog of'the Wc-tt —I
Lilly'sCatalotr. Your 1911 crop «J«;enei«B
en GOOD seed—send for this Catalog!
and get the best. Writs now So tha H
CHAS. H. LILLY CO., Seattle, Wn.l
SMOKING PfSEAT
THE ftEW WAY.
sfi!* ffiS^fijai Toiidi>n't need a smoke
*ff J I house- APP!y WRIGHTS
A, Jnl ing two coats, which will
\\/"^V «BWi™l impart the rich aroma I
imb — !■■ ■■ ■!! and delicate flavor of i
hickory smoke to the meat, keeping it !
sound, sweet and insect free indefinitely.
Sold for 14 years all over U. S. and Can- ;
ada. Gret the geuuine. Fully liunran- j
teed. Sold only in square quart bottles j
with metal cup. Ask your druggist for
''Wright's Smoke". Mode only by
E. H. WRIGHT CO., Kama* City, Mo.
S<»l<l ami Guaranteed by
HAMILTON DRUG CO.
Colfax, Wanli.
WiLLTHieoyciH]}
AND SU
raKVOLOS IF; trial ssttie rsee I
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Hea(iquartcrs for the Citizens of Whitman County and the
Traveling Public.
HOTEL COLFAX
■. J. HALOIET, Tropriotor
Olir PrifOS may not be the lowent, but we guarantee every article
first class.
Th<* Bar connected with the hotel carrim a fine line of importad and
domestic Winef, Liquor* and Oigara. When you got it at the Hotel
Oolfftx you get the best produced in the markets of the world.
When yon want to Bod your friends, go to the II ltd CoUax, the rwofnised
headqaartera for everybody.
This ie oar new No 8 mill, tbe most cotcplete and opto-date mill <>•. Ik*
market. Call and see it or B*nd for catalog. CARLKI HIU)*.. < olfal
AUCTIONEER
My extreme diffidence aad retiring dfaponitiao ha* heratoiora prevented me from
advertising n<y superior qiftli6cations man anctioneer, hut as n.y competitor! are
Mowing their horns off for business, it behooves me to blow too. I nave f >ll«>we<l
auctioneering ever sine* my neck haa been a* long an a rtiraffe'a, daring which time I
have «01.l hones aiH eon enough to stock Buffalo Bill* imaginary mind and other
stuff that would 611 nil the warehonsei in n rht and never hu- hennl a man i .v that
I di<i not charge him em ugh. My nati miliy it German, my poJitia a Mis iwnaa,
tiu re icrion • free thinker, by nature a good blower, id personal appearance » i>. ifect
beinty, and can sell stock higher than any aeroplane that fver snared. r]n-«» t-y
all other auctioneers his;; if they 1-t you down try me, I will hold you op. I w^nt
your business,
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ship by trying a sack.
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